Research funded by the Sun Grant Program South Central Region.
The long-term goal of this project is to determine if human-designed diverse, low-input native grasslands are sustainable and productive bioenergy feedstock sources in the southern Great Plains.
The move to using natives and even ecotypes of endemic species in Conservation Reserve Programs (CRP), rangeland restoration, and grassland establishment is grounded in the belief that these are already adapted to local soils, climates, diseases and pathogens.
